Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 20, 2023 8:02:47 GMT 12
TREATY EXPLAINED
P H writes > With the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangis, all the Natives (including the chiefs) became -- not 'partners' -- but SUBJECTS of the Crown in a nation state the British would henceforth create over two main landmasses and some offshore islands inhabited by around 600 "dispersed and petty tribes" in a constant state of war with one another, and lacking any concept of nationhood.
Article I
British Crown to be sovereign in perpetuity over a nation state the white settlers would henceforth create.
Article II
The chiefs and tribes [the Natives] and all the people of New Zealand [the pre-Treaty white settlers who'd bought land from Maori tribes and held it according to 'customary title, which meant as long as 'their' tribe could defend the locality against aggressive outsiders] to be protected by the incoming sovereign in their ownership of land and personal property [the correct translation of 'taonga' in 1840].
If 'tino rangatiratanga' had the wider meaning attributed to it today, it wasn't being used in that manner in Te Tiriti in 1840.
In the context of Article II it clearly refers more narrowly to ownership and control of personal property, as the inclusion of the pre-Treaty white settlers makes clear.
Article III
The chiefs and all the 'maori' [note small 'm' - in 1840 'maori' did not refer to an ethnicity but meant 'ordinary'] men [which included not just the ordinary Native men but the white men already here] to receive all fhe rights of British subjects.
Clearly, one cannot enjoy all the rights of a subject without becoming one, and with the signing of the Treaty, all those already here on 6 February 1840 became British subjects with all appurtenant rights and duties.
P H writes > With the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangis, all the Natives (including the chiefs) became -- not 'partners' -- but SUBJECTS of the Crown in a nation state the British would henceforth create over two main landmasses and some offshore islands inhabited by around 600 "dispersed and petty tribes" in a constant state of war with one another, and lacking any concept of nationhood.
Article I
British Crown to be sovereign in perpetuity over a nation state the white settlers would henceforth create.
Article II
The chiefs and tribes [the Natives] and all the people of New Zealand [the pre-Treaty white settlers who'd bought land from Maori tribes and held it according to 'customary title, which meant as long as 'their' tribe could defend the locality against aggressive outsiders] to be protected by the incoming sovereign in their ownership of land and personal property [the correct translation of 'taonga' in 1840].
If 'tino rangatiratanga' had the wider meaning attributed to it today, it wasn't being used in that manner in Te Tiriti in 1840.
In the context of Article II it clearly refers more narrowly to ownership and control of personal property, as the inclusion of the pre-Treaty white settlers makes clear.
Article III
The chiefs and all the 'maori' [note small 'm' - in 1840 'maori' did not refer to an ethnicity but meant 'ordinary'] men [which included not just the ordinary Native men but the white men already here] to receive all fhe rights of British subjects.
Clearly, one cannot enjoy all the rights of a subject without becoming one, and with the signing of the Treaty, all those already here on 6 February 1840 became British subjects with all appurtenant rights and duties.